Genomic evidence for antibiotic resistance genes of actinomycetes as origins of antibiotic resistance genes in pathogenic bacteria simply because actinomycetes are more ancestral than pathogenic bacteria

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1297-1304

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Huang, Yi ^a   Yuen, Kwok yung ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ACTINOMYCES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; CHLAMYDIA; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; CHLAMYDIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33748977433     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.12.053     Document Type: Article

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